Art friend vietnam

Vietnamese artistic talent needs to make itself better known locally. As local massive wealth presents itself in personal possessions - giant houses, giant cars, giant TVs - now is a prime opportunity for Vietnamese wealth to embed itself with the arts.
Patronage of the arts is a unique form of status in the Western world and can prove a solid return on investment if you know what’s hot and what’s not in the creative world.
Instead of investing in rhino horn, ivory tusks, and weird tree stumps carved into something even weirder, why not sponsor the latest talent? Becoming a household name for backing a gifted artist, photographer, writer or videographer is much more worthwhile than contributing to the extinction of endangered plants and animals.
Copying the works of the West is slowly morphing into a home-grown innovative movement of young talent busy exploring their personal expressive outlets and manifesting their points-of-view on life through art; both from the … [Read more...] about Patronage of the arts in Vietnam

To better study about the hobby, we arrived in Green Oasis café on a narrow alley on Le Thanh Tong Street (Hanoi). Its owner, Nguyen Tien Dung, is one of the first people in Hanoi to know about terrarium arts and study about it through foreign websites. Dung started to make some terrariums in February, 2014. After bringing some to students’ fairs and receiving praises of youngsters, he decided to open Green Oasis café to sell his products and guide interested people on the technique in October, 2014.
There are many materials needed to make a terrarium. Photo: Khanh Long/VNPDifferent layers of soil are put into the container to provide nutrition to the plants. Photo: Khanh Long/VNPOne of the popular types of plants for terrarium are succulents from Da Lat. Photo: Khanh Long/VNPPebbles and moss are included to keep the high humidity level in the container. Photo: Khanh Long/VNPIt requires the growers' delicacy to put the plants into the container without breaking its … [Read more...] about Terrarium Art in Vietnam

Art House Vietnam joins Asian Art Show My Tran By My Tran in HCMC
Work ‘Crazy XVII’ by Bui Thanh Tam - Photo: My Tran
Art House Vietnam Contemporary Gallery will join the Asia Contemporary Art Show at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong from today until Sunday, bringing to the show works by Bui Thanh Tam, Luu Tuyen, Doan Hoang Lam, Lieu Nguyen Huong Duong, Nguyen Minh Son and Nguyen Duc. The show will see pieces from 75 galleries from 16 countries, and a sampling of 2,000 works from over 300 artists. Highly assessing techniques, styles as well as ideas and creativeness in art which are going along with the international contemporary art trend, the gallery focuses on just two artists, namely Bui Thanh Tam and Luu Tuyen. Tam continues his series of ‘Crazy People,’ made of oil on canvas, depicting beautiful ladies who think they are dressed fabulously but in actual fact look arrogant and silly. Tam wants to express his ironic metaphor about deluded, … [Read more...] about Art House Vietnam joins Asian Art Show

VietNamNet Bridge - After 10 years of silently creating artworks on human skin, artist Phuong Vu Manh said that the first body painting works he introduced to the public are the works on buffaloes.
In Vietnam, Phuong Vu Manh is one of the pioneers in practicing body painting. He made the first work in 1996, on the body of his friend, who is also an artist. However, the first body painting works he introduced to the public are the works on buffaloes. … [Read more...] about Barriers for body painting art in Vietnam